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• Smart side inserters keep their filters, but they will lose wire connections. Sorry, I just couldn't find a sane way of keeping them - electric poles have a function to list all their wire-connected neighbours, but inserters don't
• Items currently held by side inserters will be lost - inserter hand contents are read-only
• Burner side inserters will keep their fuel inventory but fuel progress is lost, so they will all consume one piece of fuel when changed over

Devildog wrote:@GotLag,
My game crashed when i put a side inserter down taking coal from a box an putting it into the Burner Drill/mine at the start of the game.
- Edit, Not sure if crash was from the game or the mod.
Probably is from the game, Thought i would post it.

Ralord89 wrote:First of all. Great mod with a great Idea. Loving it so far... However I've come across an issue, thankfully its not game crashing but it needs addressing.

A lot of the time, the side inserters start to make either make the sound of the Logistic bots flying about OR a horrible ear piercing crackling screech when moving.
Now I've isolated it to this mod by
-Disabling the mod - all was fine
-Disabling all my other mods - still made the horrid sounds
-Standing near the inserters for a bit, and then away from them - it happened when ever they were actively moving.

Thank god though, its not ALWAYS making the horrible sounds... I'd say about 40%

Ralord89 wrote:First of all. Great mod with a great Idea. Loving it so far... However I've come across an issue, thankfully its not game crashing but it needs addressing.

A lot of the time, the side inserters start to make either make the sound of the Logistic bots flying about OR a horrible ear piercing crackling screech when moving.
Now I've isolated it to this mod by
-Disabling the mod - all was fine
-Disabling all my other mods - still made the horrid sounds
-Standing near the inserters for a bit, and then away from them - it happened when ever they were actively moving.

Thank god though, its not ALWAYS making the horrible sounds... I'd say about 40%

GotLag wrote:I've made a change that appears to fix it (setting match_progress_to_activity to false in the sound definitions). If it continues the only option I can see is to disable sounds entirely for the side inserters.

Kryzeth wrote:Hello and thank you for this awesome mod, it's been very helpful in my more vanilla playthroughs of Factorio, but a slight annoyance I had, was playing with bobs mods (specifically bobs logistics), whose new inserters didn't have left and right versions. I didn't really want to bother you, so I took a look into both mods, and spliced them together to make side inserter versions of bobs inserters. Specifically, in the zip I have included below, I added an optional dependency to bobs logistics so that it loads after. The basic side inserters are still added regardless of anything else, then it checks if bobs logistics are enabled and if so, it will enable side purple inserters, then if the long inserters option (in bobs config) is ticked to true, it will enable the side versions of all the added long inserters.

For anyone who uses bobs mods a lot, I don't personally use any of the other inserters, so I didn't make side versions of them, and if you enable them in the config (or use bobs logistics without bobs config) the crafting menu becomes.. messy. So for best results, you'd need to bobs config, with long inserters set to true, and all other inserters set to false. I don't think you really need side inserters if you're using those specialized inserters anyways, and vice versa, as they should both fuflill the same goal of making compact setups. Well anyways, here!

if bobmods and bobmods.config and bobmods.config.logistics then
  require("prototypes.bobs")
  LongInserters = bobmods.config.logistics.LongInserters
end

if LongInserters == true then
  require("prototypes.bobs-long")
end

purple-inserter-left=Left express inserter
purple-inserter-right=Right express inserter